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Sin and Sentience

This wasn't actually on the list of song ideas I had initially sketched out. I was walking home from work and it sort of jumped out and smacked me in the face. I like the idea a lot, but I'm not 100% sold on the implementation right now.

The idea behind this song comes from a Frank Herbert novel. (Not one of the Dune novels.) In the novel it is explored in the context of artificial intelligence. I took it a decidedly different direction.

It currently uses the same hymn-song as "A Tribe of Boy Piggies". That was unintentional, as it turned out I failed to note the meter/song used by "Piggies" in my list-o-meters.

I've been having trouble finding quiet to record vocal tracks. I had to rush to finish what I've got. As a result, the vocals are more imperfect than usual.

The album concept (repeated from my bio): This FAWM, I want to write songs for an art album I'm working on. Abstractly, it's an art album about copyright... in the guise of hymn filk. The premise is a lonely space traveler thinks about what might be in store for the colony ship when they get there, but due to copyright restrictions only music made before 1926 is available on-board. So, he combines the two.

Meter: 8-7-8-7-7-8-7-4